Sara Lee has reported a fall in third quarter sales as their foodservice and international business segments hinder growth. Third quarter adjusted profit increased 30.1%, however, primarily driven by strong...

PepsiCo’s bid to regain control over their distribution in the US has received another blow overnight with bottler Pepsi Americas rejecting their takeover offer. Last month PepsiCo made a takeover...

Ian McLeod, the Managing Director of Coles, is craving faster progress but has maintained that the supermarket chain is on track in their five-year turnaround. “I always would like to be progressing...

Creeping acquisitions, the notion of large companies purchasing small businesses to beat competition law, are under the spotlight following the release of the Federal Government’s latest discussion...

Lion Nathan shares have entered a trading halt this afternoon after the company raised concerns over a possible breach in the confidentiality of talks with major shareholder Kirin Holdings. Australia’s...

The food labelling debate has ignited again overnight, following the release of the largest study on the issue completed to date. Commissioned by the UK Food Standards Agency, an independent group of experts...

Retailers have been called to adopt sustainability programmes in the same way that they embraced IT ten years ago at the World Retail Congress in Barcelona this week. In an opening presentation at the...

The relationship between retailers and consumer packaged goods (CPG) companies has significantly changed and CPG companies need to broaden the skills of their sales forces to meet retailer expectations,...

American sales of organic products, both food and non-food, reached US$24.6 billion (A$32.8b) by the end of 2008, soaring 17.1 per cent over 2007 sales despite tough economic times, according to the Organic...

Australian food group Goodman Fielder has today announced an extension on their private label bread supply contract with Australia’s second largest supermarket chain – Coles. The news comes...